THIS very much. I would love to have code review in place in my department (~90% of us code in R, though we use various approaches). But the very first thing anyone says when I bring it up is “who has the time for that?” Everyone is understandably concerned with getting projects to collaborators, etc and formal code review is somewhat of a foreign concept, so any type of review we have is basically ad hoc if someone hits a snag. Convincing enough folks to value code review enough to dedicate the time to it - often looking at someone else’s complex data wrangling code from a large multicenter study - is a big hurdle.
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